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Germany | While the sale to Tilray, announced on 2 March, will preserve the BrewDog brand – at least for now –, the German subsidiary is planning to file for insolvency, media reported the same day. The impending liquidation affects the bar in Berlin-Mitte and the brewery in Berlin-Mariendorf, as well as the Reeperbahn pub in Hamburg. Three other bars, which were operated by a franchisee, with locations in Wiesbaden, Frankfurt/Main and Berlin-Friedrichshain, have already been closed.
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United Kingdom | Molson Coors had miserable numbers in 2025, with revenue and profit down. To cut costs, it has set out plans to shut its Sharp’s Brewery in Cornwall in south-west England, with around 50 redundancies at the site and 150 elsewhere. The move was announced (25 February) as part of broader changes to the group’s UK and Ireland business.
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The Netherlands | Courts are notoriously slow, but a milestone has finally been reached in the proceedings of Greek Macedonian Thrace Brewery (MTB) against Heineken and its subsidiary Athenian Brewery: The Amsterdam District Court rendered an interim judgment (18 February) on the correct forensic process, which will calculate the monetary value of losses MTB suffered from Heineken and Athenian Brewery’s market dominance abuses dating back to the 1980s.
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United Kingdom | The US craft beer and cannabis producer, Tilray, has struck a GBP 33 million (USD 44 million) deal to buy BrewDog’s brands, its Ellon brewery and eleven UK bars, including its London Waterloo flagship. A further 38 bars in the UK will close immediately, leading to 484 job losses, media reported on 2 March.
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United Kingdom | Diageo has cut its annual sales and profit forecast for the second time in four months and slashed its dividend, as its first results under new CEO Dave Lewis showed weak US and Chinese demand still weighing on the world’s major drinks firm.
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Austria | Heineken’s Austrian subsidiary, Brau Union, is feeling the effects of subdued consumer sentiment and the introduction of a deposit on cans. The country’s major brewer saw beer sales decline between 6 and 7 percent in 2025 over the previous year, its CEO Hans Böhm told media on 12 February.
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United Kingdom | The producer of Punk IPA and Elvis Juice has called in advisers AlixPartners to run a restructuring process that could prompt the break-up of one of Scotland's best-known consumer businesses, media reported on 14 February. Allegedly, AlixPartners has already begun to sound out prospective suitors and set a quickfire deadline for indicative offers. All this smacks of a distress-driven auction.
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The Netherlands | Heineken said it will cut up to 6000 jobs from its global workforce over the next two years to save up to EUR 500 million annually. The job cuts amount to almost 7 percent of the 87,000-strong, global workforce, the brewer said on 11 February. It also set lower expectations for 2026 profit growth than last year, as the Dutch brewer and its peers face weakening demand. The company is searching for a new CEO following the resignation of Dolf van den Brink in January.
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Belgium | The US market was a focal point in AB-InBev’s results presentation (12 February), both in prepared remarks and throughout Q&A. Harry Schuhmacher, the publisher of Beer Business Daily, was not alone in wondering why analysts were so smitten by the brewer’s turnaround in the US, considering that the US market is not the firm’s biggest.
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Russia | Prices have risen steadily in Russia since the beginning of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine. With Russia's economy suspended between stagnation and decline, ordinary Russians have begun to feel the pinch from the Kremlin's war, as it enters into its fifth year, the BBC reported on 18 February.
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